Friday, April 23 will be the date of this Spring's Miniconference for GATE students and their parents at Santa Rosa High School. Conference workshops begin at 6:30pm and end at 9:30pm.
Ani Weaver, Lecturer at Sonoma State University's Computer Science Department, will present "Making a Website" using the third floor computer lab in Santa Rosa Junior College's Maggini Hall. This is the third miniconference to feature website design. People have been returning for more! Students and parents will have beginning instruction in Adobe Photoshop to create graphics for their page. A digital camera will be available to take student's pictures to put on their site. The HTML editor in Netscape communicator will be used to create the code for the pages. come and enjoy the fun.
Ani has been teaching workshops at the GATE Miniconferences for many years. Our first offering was a popular World Wide Web Navigation class - a three hour introduction to get students and their parents working together on a mutually rewarding - even consuming - endeavor. A half hour or so of direct instruction was provided at the beginning of the classes by instructor Ani Weaver and a cadre of computer professionals who volunteered to help train our students. Everyone crowded into one room for this training, where we could see web sites projected on a big screen. Then we withdrew to other computer labs to practice on our own with instructors and helpers moving about to give aid where needed. The staff was gratified by the great turn-out 50-60 people, and by the interest of several parents who showed up to share computers with their children and learn about the WWW themselves.
After a few years of "Intro to the Net" we found that most people had their own computers and were browsing the internet on their own. So we then decided to teach a workshop in creating web pages. Our first workshop was so successful tha many students wanted to come back for more. So GATE offered a series of six classes in website development.
We arranged with the Junior College to use their computer labs, where there was a computer available for every student to learn basic Web navigation, and then proceed to the more advanced techniques of using HTML programming to create individual Web pages.
For more information contact Susan Steinbock, SRHS, (707) 528-5589, Daytime PST or email Ani Weaver
